Business Communication Skills

Use this guide to storytelling as a sturdy foundation to change how you use stories. You can build solid stories to support your goals in business and life. The provided examples are from some of the world's greatest speakers, storytellers, with advice from leading experts. From best-selling authors to generation-changing motivational speakers, this audiobook covers all the fundamentals of outstanding storytelling. It will help you deliver stories to audiences that will leave them personally affected and motivated.

Fierce Conversations is the master guidebook to transforming the conversations that are central to your success, offering a new way of relating to people - at work, at home, and in every area of your life.

A guide to personal and professional empowerment through civility and social skills by two White House social secretaries who offer an important fundamental message - everyone is important, and everyone deserves to be treated well. Part etiquette, part leadership, part personal empowerment, Treating People Well is a guide to developing social skills in order to build more successful relationships in life and at work.

In Mastering Civility, Christine Porath shows how people can enhance their influence and effectiveness with civility. Combining scientific research with fascinating evidence from popular culture and fields such as neuroscience, medicine, and psychology, this audiobook provides managers and employers with a much-needed wake-up call, while also reminding them of what they can do right now to improve the quality of their workplaces.

In a televised social experiment before millions of viewers, police sergeant Derrick Levasseur demonstrated that techniques used by undercover detectives could help people achieve their goals in everyday social situations. The result: he walked away with more than half a million dollars. In The Undercover Edge, Derrick shares his personal mind-set surrounding human behavior and motivation. Even more than that, he provides easy yet groundbreaking tools acquired while overcoming personal adversity.

I wrote The Power of Writing Well to address everything managers, leaders, engineers, scientists, and others need to be better senders and receivers, not to cover everything they need to know about the language or to be the perfect sender or receiver; nobody is.

How many people do you know who have a knack for connecting with others? Few of us are born with it. The rest of us need to learn it. This audiobook explains in clear, simple terms, the skills you need to get your message across in any speaking situation.

In Dr. Diane Hamilton’s provocative new book, she uncovers what could foreseeably be the next movement to enhance human performance, a critical and direct link to improving motivation and communication-based issues that challenge organizations. Drawing on decades of research and incorporating interviews from some of the top leaders of our time, Hamilton examines the factors that influence curiosity including fear, assumptions, technology, and environment (FATE). Her ground-breaking research provides an action plan to transform individuals and organizations.

Have you noticed that on some days, everything seems to go so smoothly? Those times when everybody shares the same deadline and all of a sudden everything gets done. What’s going on here? What’s different in these scenarios? At the core of each situation is a replicable occurrence, a behavior pattern, or a trend you can understand and utilize. In fact, with just a little bit of heightened awareness and increased focus on your situation, you can pinpoint these exact patterns and recreate them at will.

Discover how to use proven spy techniques to bolster your business strategies - from self-advocation to selling to interviewing - and ultimately make more money with this unique guide.

Do you struggle with public speaking or communication in your workplace or personal relations? Have you tried other solutions but find yourself slipping back into old, anxiety-ridden habits? Are you tired of feeling like a wallflower, overlooked or misunderstood when you do speak up? Many individuals struggle with social anxiety, leading to missed opportunities both personally and professionally. But what if you could transform your communication skills, master small talk, and command the room while remaining authentic to who you are?

Maybe you’re trying to make new friends, get that job promotion, be a charismatic leader, or get lucky in love. Do you want to become more than just another one of the crowd? Effective communication verbally, physically, and online will open these doors for you. Through a series of engaging and practical exercises, you'll learn how to banter and build rapport with anyone you meet. You'll discover the secrets of confident body language, effective listening, and engaging storytelling.

Learn conversational agility to think quickly on your feet, be incredibly smooth, funny, and clever - all at once. Goodbye awkward silences! No matter where you lie on the spectrum of awkward to engaging, witty banter is always the end goal - and it should be. Witty banter, and all the steps that lead to it, allows you to disarm and connect with anyone, immediately exit boring small talk mode, and instantly build rapport.

Parlez-moi de vous... ? C'est la question qui bloque ! Sans doute le passage le plus difficile dans un entretien ! Que faut-il dire ? Et comment le dire ? Comment valoriser ses points forts... et muscler ses points faibles ? Parler de soi, raconter son histoire est un exercice très difficile mais qui peut rapporter gros. Avec vos proches, vos clients, vos collègues... vous n'avez que quelques instants pour être bon ! Et gare aux discours trop longs, confus, hors sujet ou ennuyeux... Les pièges ne sont pas là où vous les croyez.

Rethink Social Media teaches you that, regardless of your experience, you can be making money using social media. Discover how to use Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram to access billions of people every single day. Generate thousands of followers and learn the cutting edge techniques to mastering social media and create a job-replacing income.

Keith Ferrazzi is a master networker who claims his secret is merely reaching out to other people. And what distinguishes highly successful people from everyone else is the way they use the power of relationships, so that everyone wins. In Never Eat Alone, Ferrazzi presents the specific steps and mindset he uses to connect with the thousands of individuals in his Rolodex.

There has never been a better time to build an audience around your idea or product. But with so many people and companies clamoring for attention, it's also more challenging than ever to do work that deeply resonates with the marketplace and creates true and lasting impact.

From prominent communication coach Frances Cole Jones comes this indispensable guide in which anyone can learn how to make a spectacular impression in all aspects of their work life - from giving top notch presentations to dazzling a client to wowing at cocktail parties. It's the go-to handbook for achieving success by making a lasting impression.

Almost every interaction involves negotiation, yet we often miss the cues that would allow us to make the most of these exchanges. In Getting (More of) What You Want, Margaret Neale and Thomas Lys draw on the latest advances in psychology and economics to provide new strategies for anyone shopping for a car, lobbying for a raise, or simply haggling over who takes out the trash. Getting (More of) What You Want shows how inexperienced negotiators regularly leave significant value on the table - and reveals how you can claim it.

When stories are used in business settings, we expect them to deliver more. We need stories to be remembered and repeated. That's a challenge. Using stories isn't as easy as it may seem, both in terms of shaping stories to align with business situations and telling stories that are compelling enough to repeat. In this audiobook, Sally solves both challenges by providing insights on the listener's perspective and concrete tools to shape storylines and stories that deliver impact.